Drug Abuse and Crime Across the Life Course in an African American Population

非裔美国人一生中的药物滥用和犯罪

基本信息

批准号：
7755368
负责人：
MARGARET E. ENSMINGER
金额：
$ 47.6万
依托单位：
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2008-03-15 至 2011-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7755368
关键词：
Address Adolescence Adult Affect African American Age Behavior Behavioral Chicago Child Childhood Communities Complex Crime Criminal Justice Data Development Disadvantaged Drug abuse Drug usage Etiology Family Female Gender Health Imprisonment Individual Interviewer Lead Learning Life Life Cycle Stages Longevity Mediating Mental Health Mothers Neighborhoods Outcome Pathway interactions Pattern Personal Satisfaction Pharmaceutical Preparations Population Population Study Preventive Intervention Records Request for Applications Research Resources Risk Risk Factors Role Sampling Social Functioning Societies Socioeconomic Status Source Staging System Time Time Study Unemployment Victimization Violence Woman base cohort cost criminal behavior design emerging adult experience first grade follow-up health economics inner city interest intervention program low socioeconomic status male member men mortality prospective racial discrimination social social integration socioeconomics statistics therapy design

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): African Americans are disproportionately represented in national crime statistics for arrests and incarceration as well as victimization, particularly for drug-related and violent offenses. Their involvement in crime often represents only one component of a well-recognized cluster of negative experiences and circumstances including drug use problems, socioeconomic disadvantage and poor physical and mental health, sometimes evident in childhood. The cost to individuals, families, and society is enormous, yet we know little about the development of these patterns across the life course. Despite these evident disparities, few studies have examined the development of drug use and criminal behaviors over time within African American community populations, especially into mid adulthood. We intend to study the timing and sources of risk over the life span to better understand the disparities in health and social consequences related to criminal justice issues among African Americans. To that end, we request support to analyze existing crime and drug data covering 35 years in the lives of a cohort of first grade, African American children from inner city Chicago. This prospective developmental study (the Woodlawn project) began in 1966-67, with the most recent follow up in 2002-3 at ages 42-43, and interim assessments in adolescence and early adulthood (age 32-33). The study population had high levels of drug use and criminal activity in adulthood. In the proposed project, we will focus on interrelationships of drug abuse and crime, examining predictors and consequences of drug abuse, criminal activity, and involvement with the criminal justice system. Using data from cohort members, mothers, interviewers, and official criminal records, we will identify 1) patterns of drug use and criminal behaviors over the life course; 2) individual and contextual predictors of later drug use, criminal activity/behaviors, and involvement with the criminal justice system; 3) social, economic, and health consequences of drug use, criminal behaviors, and involvement in the criminal justice system. Of particular interest is how drug use in adolescence and early adulthood relates to the risk of being arrested and incarcerated and, conversely, how early arrests and incarceration influence later drug use and criminal behaviors. This information will further our understanding of the etiology and consequences of crime and drug use into mid adulthood, and inform the design of interventions at various stages along the life course.

描述（由申请人提供）：非洲裔美国人在国家犯罪统计中的逮捕和监禁以及受害，特别是与毒品有关和暴力犯罪的罪名。他们参与犯罪通常仅代表着公认的负面经历和情况，包括吸毒问题，社会经济劣势以及身体和心理健康不良，有时在儿童时期很明显。个人，家庭和社会的成本是巨大的，但我们对整个生活过程中这些模式的发展知之甚少。尽管存在这些明显的差异，但很少有研究研究了非裔美国人社区人口，尤其是成年中期的毒品使用和犯罪行为的发展。我们打算在整个生命周期内研究风险的时机和风险来源，以更好地了解与非裔美国人刑事司法问题有关的健康和社会后果的差异。为此，我们要求支持分析现有的犯罪和药物数据，这些犯罪和药物数据涵盖了一年级的一年级，来自芝加哥内城的非洲裔美国儿童的生活。这项前瞻性发展研究（伍德劳恩项目）始于1966 - 67年，最新的随访在2002 - 3年度为42-43岁，并在青春期和成年初（32-33岁）进行了临时评估。研究人群在成年后具有很高的吸毒和犯罪活动。在拟议的项目中，我们将专注于滥用毒品和犯罪的相互关系，研究滥用药物，犯罪活动以及参与刑事司法系统的预测因素和后果。使用队列成员，母亲，访调员和官方犯罪记录的数据，我们将确定生命过程中毒品使用和犯罪行为的模式； 2）以后使用毒品，犯罪活动/行为以及参与刑事司法系统的个人和上下文预测因素； 3）毒品使用，犯罪行为以及参与刑事司法系统的社会，经济和健康后果。特别值得关注的是，青春期和成年早期的药物使用如何与被捕和监禁的风险有关，相反，早期逮捕和监禁如何影响后来的毒品使用和犯罪行为。这些信息将进一步理解成年中期的病因和毒品使用的病因和后果，并在生活过程中的各个阶段为干预措施提供介绍。